These services enables to integrate geographic data from multiple vendors, thus making GIS data available to a growing number of users. This ability to share data from multiple sources is particularly important to cities, states, provinces, and countries where data comes from many sources and in many formats using GeoMedia technology which is the catalyst to bring the data together, in real-time, without having to change it and makes it easy to share this GIS data across borders, industries, and disciplines via the Internet, thus increasing community involvement and helping citizens and governments make better-informed decisions.